Good Novel
Thus they managed and planned and wrought,
And the old folks throve - Till the night before
They were to start for the lone last son
In the rainy dawn - their money fast
Hid away in the house, - two mean,
Murderous robbers burst the door.
...Then, in the dark, was a scuffle - a fall -
An old man's gasping cry - and then
A woman's fife-like shriek.
...Three men
Splashing by on horseback heard
The summons: And in an instant all